Navalny was ideologically somewhere between Macron and Putin. Fun fact: Macron isn’t all that much better than your "Orange Agent". So they are liberals who, like all liberals, share traits with the far right and ultimately end up serving as a springboard for fascism.
Your orange agent not mine. Corporate consolidation is fascism musellini style, and with it comes all the other authoritarian symptoms. France has a social democracy and macron has roots in that but morphed into a centrist with corporate learnings, like Obama. Sorry. We are things differently.
First of all, I'm French, so the orange agent isn't my president. It's Macron. And as a proper Frenchman, I know what I'm talking about — Macron has always been influenced by big business; he even worked for major corporate leaders and finance.
The only thing that has changed is his increasingly authoritarian, fascist-style communication, with a growing emphasis on the far right. And by the way, he's already fired top officials who contradicted his propaganda — just like Trump.
That's a problem.
What problem ? 'cause I see a lot of ...
I would not call macron a fascist. He's a liberal corporatist that without control regulations morphs into fascism. Hrs not there yet. Hrs a lot like Obama.
I don't know about Obama, but from my perspective here in France, it seems to me that he didn't appoint Catholic fundamentalist fascists or people close to neo-Nazi youth movements to high-ranking police positions, spewing streams of racist rhetoric. Macron did.
And I'm not even talking about media control, where Macron makes sure he has the right people in place to blame the poor and immigrants. Oh wait, I guess I just did...
Wow ... No Obama did not do that. I guess when the shite hits the fan, and it will, hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way. Not without strife, sadly.
I guess you're right ... Ineluctably right ...
The pendulum swings...
The truth, as I see it, is that liberals like Macron or Navalny are connected to fascism — because that logic, whether revealed or not, conscious or not, is intrinsically part of their political ideology.
Sorry for the liberals, but it's their complacency, if not outright complicity, that has invariably led the far right to power.
Navalny has some cred in working to try to unveil the corruption. It cost him his life. I appreciate his messaging; I truly despise Putin as much as 45/7. Macron is too much of a hot house politician that is busy placating and pandering to right wing potential constituents. No BALLS.
Regarding Navalny and his fight against corruption, I can understand and accept why you wanted to support him, but I'm not sure he would have acted differently — as you said, that's Russia, and also because of his political background.
Regarding Macron, you're right, he's a coward, but that doesn't explain everything. For example, our healthcare system is in crisis because we lack medical staff.
In one of his recent meetings, Macron said: "The problem with hospitals is that there's too much Mamadou"... Mamadou is an African first name. That's clearly racism.
Yes, in a purely Marxist illustration, Macron clearly shows that he belongs to the ruling class and works for it, with all the class contempt he can express, and through his efforts to dismantle our healthcare and pension systems in order to enrich the super-rich and major corporations.
That is straight out nationalism that the French have always fostered. For me, it's no surprise.
Our healthcare has suffered due to the aftermath of COVID. It takes time to repair, even in the best of times.
We are in uncharted territory in the world with globalization and wealth consolidation. Media complicit disinformation is poisonous for democracy.
Yes totally ...